{"id":3763,"date":"2017-01-11T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/fumblingtowardgrace\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2017-01-11T05:00:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T09:00:29","slug":"2017-a-year-in-written-spoken-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/fumblingtowardgrace\/2017\/01\/11\/2017-a-year-in-written-spoken-words\/","title":{"rendered":"2017: A Year in Written, Spoken, Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

As I get off to an uncertain start with 2017, both personally \u2014 I\u2019ve finished my Creighton internship and am now a full-fledged FCP (FertilityCare<\/em> Practitioner), so now what? \u2014 and in terms of watching the unfolding events of our nation with a mixture of anxiety and revulsion on basically every level, I\u2019m left thinking that what I need less of is noise. And what I need more of is words \u2013 the written word in all its forms. Part of the farce known as 2016 can be attributed to people getting \u201cnews\u201d from sources that are anything but real. In this household, in the wake of all that noise, we made a decision to support print media and legitimate news sources. I need more words, thoughtful impassioned words from people who have vision and a compelling story to tell.<\/p>\n

I need to surround myself with this, in the hopes of being able to share my own voice too. Yesterday I finished the first book of my 2017 list, and I shared about it on social media. A few people asked if there was a list I was working off of and since there is, and I put it together just recently, I figured I\u2019d share it here for anyone who might be looking for reading suggestions in the new year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a mix of fiction and non-fiction, drawn from quite a few genres. It\u2019s an incomplete list, as I\u2019m sure books yet to be released will make it onto the list as we journey through the year. Imperfect as it is \u2013 and the books appear in no particular order \u2013 here\u2019s the 2017 book list. I\u2019m hoping to read about 2-3 books a month. Some will probably take longer, some may take much less time. In addition to these books, I have a daily devotional \u2014 2017: A Book of Grace-Filled Days by Amy Andrews<\/a> \u2014 a little daily gem with my morning coffee. It\u2019s my dearest ambition in 2017 to greet the day with the news in one hand and Scripture in the other. To aid me I\u2019ve got The New Yorker<\/a> weekly to peruse (I have yet to read one all the way through from cover to cover before the next one arrives), and The New York Times<\/a> every day (online). As for magazines, in addition to The New Yorker, US Catholic<\/a> makes its way to our door. While I could never read every word of these publications or the books on my list, a goal to strive for will guarantee that I finish 2017 having read much more than I would have if I hadn\u2019t set a goal at all. It\u2019s all about the journey, not the destination, right?<\/p>\n

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  1. Between the World and Me \u2014 Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives<\/a> \u2014 Gary Younge<\/li>\n
  3. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis<\/a> \u2014 JD Vance<\/li>\n
  4. DoCat: What to Do?<\/a>\u00a0 \u2014 Social Doctrine of the Church, published by the Austrian Bishops\u2019 Conference<\/li>\n
  5. Upstream: Selected Essays<\/a> \u2014 Mary Oliver<\/li>\n
  6. The Art of Memoir<\/a> \u2014 Mary Karr<\/li>\n
  7. The Writing Life<\/a> \u2014 Annie Dillard<\/li>\n
  8. Seeds of the Word: Finding God in the Culture<\/a> \u2014 Bishop Robert Barron<\/li>\n
  9. The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing<\/a> \u2014 Marie Kondo<\/li>\n
  10. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn <\/a>\u2014 Betty Smith<\/li>\n
  11. Americanah<\/a> \u2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie<\/li>\n
  12. Dear Life: Stories<\/a> \u2013 Alice Munro<\/li>\n
  13. Commonwealth<\/a> \u2014 Ann Patchett<\/li>\n
  14. The Piano Teacher<\/a> \u2014 Janice YK Lee<\/li>\n
  15. Gone Girl<\/a> \u2014 Gillian Flynn (I know \u2014 I\u2019m probably the only person in America who hasn\u2019t read this yet.)<\/li>\n
  16. The Underground Railroad: A Novel<\/a> \u2014 Colson Whitehead<\/li>\n
  17. Born to Run<\/a> \u2014 Bruce Springsteen<\/li>\n
  18. The Brothers Karamazov<\/a> \u2014 Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    What are you reading this year? How do you choose books for your list?<\/p>\n

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